- Hardcover: 272 pages
- Publisher: Old Street Publishing; 1st Edition edition (15 Sep 2008)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 1905847505
- ISBN-13: 978-1905847501
- Product Dimensions: 22.9 x 15.5 x 2.3 cm
- Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (1 customer review)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 704,230 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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In 1930 the dashing Gino Watkins led a group of fourteen intrepid and largely inexperienced young men (including the author's father) to pioneer the first commercial air route between Europe and America. Alongside high adventure, triumph and tragedy, Scott paints a stunning portrait of two lost worlds: the Inuit hunters of the polar regions and the Brideshead generation of English men addicted to adventure. One member of the expedition was stranded alone on the ice cap for five months, for much of the time in total darkness. Blizzards raged continuously and temperatures dropped to -41°C. For six weeks he was utterly trapped in an ice cave, unable to get out as his companions mounted a desperate, last-ditch rescue attempt.
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More than I expected,
By Andy (UK) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Dancing on Ice (Hardcover)
This book is an excellent account of the exploration of Greenland by a group of young Englishmen in 1930, but it is much more than that. It also gives an insight into the public school system of the time, the lives of the privileged classes and the massively different lives of the Greenland Eskimos.
The book is well written in a lively an entertaining style and manages to generate real excitement. Strongly recommended.
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More Arctic Adventure,
By secret squirrel - Published on Amazon.com
This review is from: Dancing on Ice: A Stirring Tale of Adventure, Risk and Reckless Folly (Paperback)
Accounts of polar exploration, with their repeating elements of frostbite and raw seal-eating, are strangely addictive, and after getting through the classics of the genre you may find yourself casting around for more. DoI is a solid addition to the compendium: the story of a group of college-aged upper-class Brits who head to coastal Greenland to map out the place in advance of transcontinental airplane routes.
The characters are well-described and the story is compelling. The author has useful opinions about the nature of risk-taking and the tone of leadership on the expedition, as successfully set by the quite young and effete leader of the group. There are frank and interesting descriptions of inuit life and the collision of sexual mores as explorers interact with natives. The writing is a little uneven and as the expedition fragments into different small teams the narrative struggles to keep up; but these are small faults. Those interested in the topic will find it a compelling and enjoyable read. If you are new to the 'early 20th century polar explorers' or 'cold weather survival' genres there are many books also worthy of a look -- certainly, 'Endurance' and 'Land of the White Death', 'We Die Alone,' maybe 'The Long Walk', or 'Shadows on the Wasteland.' And, if you love DoI, also take a look at "Ada Blackjack", a contemporaneous account of a similarly young American expedition that does not fare so well. |
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